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Direct linkJung, Lee Ann – Educational Leadership, 2017
What's the difference between accommodations and modifications, and why does the distinction matter? In this article, professor Lee Ann Jung explains that accommodations "provide access to the general curriculum but do not fundamentally alter the learning goal or grade level standard." For instance, if the purpose of an assessment is to…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Adaptive Testing, Access to Education, Disabilities
Download full textQuenemoen, Rachel; Thurlow, Martha; Moen, Ross; Thompson, Sandra; Morse, Amanda Blount – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2004
This report describes how progress monitoring--a set of techniques for assessing student performance on a regular and frequent basis--can be an essential and integral part of an inclusive standards-based assessment and accountability system. In order to meet the higher expectations of current standards-based systems, educators need information…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Inclusion
Peer reviewedMeyen, Ed; Poggio, John; Seok, Soonhwa; Smith, Sean – Focus on Exceptional Children, 2006
One of the most significant challenges facing policy makers in education today is to ensure that state assessments designed to measure student performance across specified grade-level curriculum content standards will allow all students to demonstrate what they have learned. This challenge is made complex by the varied attributes of students with…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Adaptive Testing, Disabilities
Beech, Marty – Florida Department of Education, 2010
This document updates "Accommodations: Assisting Students with Disabilities. A Guide for Educators," published by the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) in 2003. This document is written to assist school district personnel and parents when making decisions about the use of accommodations by students with disabilities in instructional…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Disabilities, Testing Accommodations, State Standards
Fuchs, Lynn S. – 2001
This final report describes the outcomes of Project MAPS (Monitoring Authentic Problem Solving), a project that developed multimedia computer-managed assessment environments to overcome the barriers educators face in using problem-solving performance assessment (PSPA) with students with disabilities. MAPS software was developed for 6 alternate…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Alternative Assessment, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software
Jones, Joan – 1987
The report describes the process and procedures undertaken to recommend topics for a California community college (Oxnard College) faculty resource guide, intended to facilitate test-taking by students with disabilities. An expert panel composed of college administrators, special educators, other faculty members, and community professionals…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adaptive Testing, Adjustment (to Environment), Assistive Devices (for Disabled)
